Birthmarks: Poems
Ebook
Overview
Hagar raises her son across an unwelcoming border. Bathsheba tries to erase her trauma. Another breakup haunts the woman at the well. The poems in Birthmarks contemporize women of the Old and New Testaments and consider who they might be today. Drawing on history, subtext, and common female experiences, they reimagine these characters and their narratives, daring readers to meet the women of the Bible anew.
“Whitney Rio-Ross’s poetry emerges out of what may be the single
most damaging silence in the history of Christianity: the voices of
women. The songs and speeches she has teased out of those silences
are complex, moving, necessary—and now unforgettable.”
—Christian Wiman, poet and essayist, author of My Bright
Abyss
“There is poetry and then there is poetry. Whitney
Rio-Ross’s Birthmarks—right from the dedication—belongs in
that latter category. Her poems are midrashic, attending with
adoringly inquisitive and exquisitely irreverent attention to the
bodies and stories of our biblical mothers, and reading these lines
we cannot help but come aware of our own bodies and our own
stories. This is the kind of attention that leaves a mark.”
—Chris Green, Professor of Theology, Southeastern
University
- Title: Birthmarks: Poems
- Author: Whitney Rio-Ross
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781725261747, 9781725261723, 9781725261730, 172526174X, 1725261723, 1725261731
- Resource ID: LLS:9781725261747
- Resource Type: text.monograph.poetry
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T20:20:50Z
Whitney Rio-Ross writes and teaches English in Nashville,
Tennessee, where she lives with her husband. Her poetry has
appeared in America Magazine, Gravel, Rock &
Sling, So to Speak, The Windhover, and
elsewhere.